The bullet whizzed through a tent, sliced through a waiter’s thigh and then lodged into the calf of a 20-year-old employee of Mesea, the company in charge of railroad maintenance, the paper reported.

The startled sharpshooter jumped into a kitchen to take cover from himself – hurting his foot in the process, according to reports.

“I hope it’s nothing serious … I don’t think so,” the president said about the gunfire before continuing his speech.

Hollande, who bowed out of the presidential elections amid low approval ratings, later went over to check on the casualties before they were evacuated.

The shooting sparked security fears in France, where a state of emergency has been in effect since November 2015, when 130 people were killed during attacks by ISIS jihadists in Paris.

Police have been given extended powers of search and arrest and security forces have been deployed at high-profile “soft targets” such as the famed Louvre, where authorities fear an attack on civilians.

Last month, a soldier patrolling at the Louvre shot and seriously injured a machete-wielding man who yelled “Allahu Akbar!” – “God is great!” – in what was described as a terrorist attack.